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Assessment - relying less on data and more on teachers’ judgment

Geoff Riley

23rd January 2018

The majority of teachers have excellent knowledge of their students, with or without the data - so argues Tom Sherrington in this article that offers sage advice on improving the quality of assessment without the fetish for data dumping.

One comment by @dylanwiliam comes to my mind: 'Assessment is a good servant, but a terrible master.' Relevant piece by @teacherhead Assessment too often fails to prioritise learning – let's change that https://t.co/Xs72WWC0jj
— Chris Grabski (@ChrisHGR) January 23, 2018

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for over thirty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD conferences in the UK and overseas.